If shipping containers can be reused as housing, why not retrofit them for farms, too?
Rockville-based Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE: FRT) has struck up a partnership with a Boston-based company to bring farms contained in retrofitted shipping containers to select shopping centers across the United States.
The partnership with Freight Farms, according to a release, “empowers anyone to use this technology while repurposing Federal Realty’s unused parking spaces as a place to locally and sustainably produce food that benefits the shopping centers’ tenants, customers and community.”
Freight Farms produces what it calls the “Leafy Green Machine,” a “complete hydroponic growing system capable of producing a variety of lettuces, herbs and hearty greens.” The 40 x 8 x 9.5 shipping containers, weighing 7.5 tons each, include climate technology and growing equipment — LED light strips, closed-loop water system, multi-planed airflow — to ensure a regular harvest, Freight Farms claims.
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